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Plans to transform a former rubber works into a centre for Edinburgh Printmakers, with studios, exhibition spaces, a cafe-bar and retail units, have secured £6.6m in funding.

The City of Edinburgh Council is proposing to cut funding to The Festival City Theatres Trust, which runs the King’s and Festival theatres, from £769k to around £646k for 2016-17.

The Wellcome Genus Campus Conference Centre, which is set to open in Cambridge, will house a Culture Zone to showcase art inspired by science.

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s budget has been cut by 8%—£870,000—forcing it to make savings by cutting its own operational costs and grants to its main clients. The MAC and the Lyric Theatre are set to lose around £68,000; the Ulster Orchestra is to lose around £125,000.

Ipswich High School for Girls cancelled a performance of Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s ‘Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern’ – an Out of Joint co-production – saying it had “grave reservations” about the content and worried for the welfare of its pupils.

After 111 days of strike action, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union have reached an agreement with the National Gallery over the terms and conditions of their employment under a new private contract, and dismissed senior union rep Candy Udwin has been reinstated.